The Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief (Amendment) Order 2016 No. 1199


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Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 1199

Value Added Tax

The Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief (Amendment) Order 2016

Made

9th December 2016

Laid before the House of Commons

9th December 2016

Coming into force

1st January 2017

The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 37(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994(1).

It appears to the Treasury that it is expedient to make this Order having regard to the need to comply with Council Directive 2006/79/EC(2).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief (Amendment) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st January 2017.

Amendment of the Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief Order 1986

2.  The Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief Order 1986(3) is amended as follows.

3.  In article 3(2) (relief from value added tax), for "£34" substitute "£39".

Andrew Griffiths

Guto Bebb

Two of the Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty's Treasury

9th December 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends article 3(2) of the Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/939). That Order provides for relief from VAT in certain circumstances for small non-commercial consignments of goods imported into the UK from a place outside of the European Union, and article 3(2) of that Order specifies the maximum value of goods in a "small consignment". Article 3 of this Order increases that maximum value from £34 to £39.

This amendment is made in order to comply with Council Directive 2006/79/EC (OJ No L 286, 17.10.2006), which specifies that a small non-commercial consignment is a consignment whose value does not exceed €45. Member States whose national currency is not the euro are required by the Directive to determine the equivalent amount in their national currency annually by reference to an exchange rate obtained on the first working day of October and then specify that amount for the purposes of their national legislation with effect from 1st January of the following year. On 1st October 2016 the sterling equivalent of €45 was £39.

A Tax Information and Impact Note has not been prepared for this Instrument as it contains no substantive changes to tax policy.

(2)

OJ No L 286, 17.10.2006, p15.

(3)

S.I. 1986/939. The amount in article 3(2) was last amended by S.I.2015/2015; there are other amending instruments which are not relevant.


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